Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
ReportsPrevalence and epidemiology of onychomycosis in patients visiting physicians’ offices: A multicenter Canadian survey of 15,000 patients☆
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Patients and methods
Patients visiting the offices of 3 dermatologists and 1 family physician were informed about the project evaluating the prevalence of onychomycosis in Ontario, which is situated in eastern Canada. All consecutive consenting individuals were evaluated. In Canada, the family physician treats all age groups for any medical condition. The dermatologists see patients of all ages and with a wide range of dermatologic disorders.
The evaluation of the feet and sampling of the nails for mycologic
Results and discussion
In this series, 15,000 patients have been evaluated excluding those referred to dermatologists’ offices for the management of nail problems or onychomycosis, and persons who declined to have their nails examined. An advantage of the present study is that clinical evaluation, mycologic sampling, and laboratory analysis were performed by only a limited number of persons, all of whom were highly skilled in these techniques. In addition, processing of the nail sample in the laboratory was carried
Acknowledgements
We thank Dr Lynne Sigler for her consultation on the identification of the Arachnomyces spp.
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